RE: Bluetooth serial port profile on iOS 4.
Because of the Braille display support, I also thought that this was possible. However, I can't tract down any information about SPP in iOS 4. Besides Braille displays (which are supported), there are GPS receivers that work, too. They have to be using a serial connection. There doesn't seem to be any public way to do it, unless... iOS is really OS X stripped down, which is BSD. It's possible that there isn't a high level IOKit sort of way to get at the serial port, but it may be as simpple as read/write with a TTY device. There are lots of people on the web that think so, but I can't find any success stories. This is very surprising. The iPhone is great in a lot of ways, but I'm occasionally brought up short by how locked down it is in a particular area. It seems that the iPhone might be too technically limited at the moment to do what we want. Bryan -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionar...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Aman Singer Sent: Tuesday, July 13, 2010 1:33 AM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: RE: Bluetooth serial port profile on iOS 4. Hi, Mike. I can confirm that this didn't work on any 3.x version of the software. I did try it with a Touch and Phone running 3.x, and the results were the same, they seemed not even to see the receiver. Now, however, we know the underlying code is there because the Braille displays are using it. If you have a few minutes to give it a shot, I, for one, would be most appreciative. Aman -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionar...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Mike Arrigo Sent: Monday, July 12, 2010 7:41 PM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Bluetooth serial port profile on iOS 4. I may give this another try, perhaps it's changed in version 4, it didn't work in version 3 with a gps receiver, apple does keep pretty tight control over what you can use and what you can't, sometimes too much in my opinion. On Jul 11, 2010, at 11:04 PM, Aman Singer wrote: Hi, all. Recently, in an interesting discussion about bar code reading solutions for the iPhone, Brian mentioned that bar code scanners use the Bluetooth serial port profile as, of course, do braille displays. I'm just wondering if anyone has tried an external GPS receiver on the iPhone. I'm sure that the iPhone does support the profile, simply because braille displays use it, but is this support available to other applications? I do not currently have access to the phone to try it myself. Thanks. Aman -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
RE: Bluetooth serial port profile on iOS 4.
Hi, Mike. I can confirm that this didn't work on any 3.x version of the software. I did try it with a Touch and Phone running 3.x, and the results were the same, they seemed not even to see the receiver. Now, however, we know the underlying code is there because the Braille displays are using it. If you have a few minutes to give it a shot, I, for one, would be most appreciative. Aman -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionar...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Mike Arrigo Sent: Monday, July 12, 2010 7:41 PM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Bluetooth serial port profile on iOS 4. I may give this another try, perhaps it's changed in version 4, it didn't work in version 3 with a gps receiver, apple does keep pretty tight control over what you can use and what you can't, sometimes too much in my opinion. On Jul 11, 2010, at 11:04 PM, Aman Singer wrote: Hi, all. Recently, in an interesting discussion about bar code reading solutions for the iPhone, Brian mentioned that bar code scanners use the Bluetooth serial port profile as, of course, do braille displays. I'm just wondering if anyone has tried an external GPS receiver on the iPhone. I'm sure that the iPhone does support the profile, simply because braille displays use it, but is this support available to other applications? I do not currently have access to the phone to try it myself. Thanks. Aman -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
Re: Bluetooth serial port profile on iOS 4.
I know that Megelan has come out with something called the ToughCase for the iPhone and iPod Touch that contains it's own gps receiver that they claim is supposed to work with both of these devices. You can find it at the apple online store. I would be interested to know if the gps receiver in this case does work with the iPod Touch. Doug Sent from my iPhone On 2010-07-12, at 1:34 AM, Aman Singer aman.sin...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, all. Recently, in an interesting discussion about bar code reading solutions for the iPhone, Brian mentioned that bar code scanners use the Bluetooth serial port profile as, of course, do braille displays. I'm just wondering if anyone has tried an external GPS receiver on the iPhone. I'm sure that the iPhone does support the profile, simply because braille displays use it, but is this support available to other applications? I do not currently have access to the phone to try it myself. Thanks. Aman -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
